Liberal Justices Move to ‘Protect’ ObamaCare

The Supreme Court’s liberal justices went head to head with the court’s conservatives Wednesday in an effort to protect the Obama administration’s health law, suggesting in their questions that most of the measure should be kept even if the requirement to carry health insurance or pay a penalty is struck down.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor was first to interrupt the challengers’ lawyer, Paul Clement, who was arguing that the whole law should be invalidated. “Why shouldn’t we let Congress” decide what to do? Justice Sotomayor asked.

The question of what should happen to the rest of the law if the insurance mandate is struck down was the subject of 90 minutes of argument Wednesday morning. (Read More)

Update: MRCTV reported that Sotomayor at least tried to sound somewhat impartial, and the LA Times is inclined to believe that the Court could strike down the entire law if the mandate is found to be unconstitutional.

If the liberal justices never vote outside their political paradigm then why bother to have them there at all. We should fire all 4 liberal justices and simply expect their votes to side with obama and see what the other 5 justices who actually make decisions on the merits of the cases as they relate to the constitution.